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FreddyHeadey	Origins of 'Strange Fruit' - article (42)	RE: Origins of 'Strange Fruit' - article	05 Jan 23
Sorry only a couple of days left to hear this. Maybe it'll get a repeat. The roots of jazz - 2022 - BBC World Service & R4 The Truth about Jazz Clive Myrie charts the early roots of jazz in the late 19th and early 20th Century. The programme visits the jazz museum in New Orleans and hears about the early jazz pioneers like Buddy Bolden. starts about 13:05 Clive meets Robert Meeropol, the adopted son of Abel Meeropol who wrote the original poem that Billie Holiday's seminal protest song Strange Fruit was based on. He also hears the story behind the 1929 song Black and Blue. Mercedes Ellington remembers Black, Brown and Beige - her grandfather Duke Ellington’s 1943 creation for his first concert at Carnegie Hall. Producers: Ashley Byrne and Wayne Wright. The Truth About Jazz is a Made in Manchester Production, originally produced for the BBC World Service. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct43qn

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